William Sawicki CPA*

*Licensed by the State of Connecticut and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

William Sawicki is a Director in the Firm's New Haven, Connecticut office. He has more than 30 years of accounting and auditing experience working with government agencies, nonprofit entities and employee benefit plan providers. He also has a particular expertise in conducting audits under for GAO Yellow Book HUD, and federal (A-133) and state single audits. Mr. Sawicki is Chairman of Marcum LLP's National Employee Benefit Practice Committee. Their responsibilities under Mr. Sawicki's direction include providing firm-wide training on benefit plan audits, as well as keeping up on the latest accounting and auditing standards.

Mr. Sawicki has an extensive background working with the State of Connecticut on compliance factors related to special projects and funding sources. He has performed audit and other attest services for numerous agencies of the State of Connecticut and has been responsible for, and participated in, approximately 20 municipal audits in the State of Connecticut. In addition, Mr. Sawicki has led internal audit engagements involving bidding processes, overhead and cost allocations, construction change orders, retainage, budgets and facilities operations. Finally, he oversees audits for several nonprofit organizations located throughout Connecticut.

Mr. Sawicki shares his expertise internally to other Firm professionals through instructing classes. He has developed training materials for governmental auditing and single audits and is a frequent speaker at in-house seminars on topics related to government auditing standards, nonprofit and governmental auditing, HUD audits and the audits of employee benefit plans. In addition, he has engagement quality review responsibilities over governmental, compliance, HUD, non-profit, and employee benefit plan audits.

The 2016 Marcum Workplace Challenge raised a record $115,000 for four Long Island charities and the New York State Parks Department. To date, the annual run-walk for charity has raised more than $700,000. This year's check presentation took place on Giving Tuesday, November 29.

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